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A lava lake is a small, widespread, naturally-generated terrain feature that contains a volume of lava.
Description[]
Lava lakes are shallow and often small bodies of liquid that generate above Y=0. Lava lakes found at the surface are surrounded by stone, which can be replaced by blobs of blocks such as dirt, gravel, and coal ore.
Lava lakes generate with a small air pocket above them, which may result in floating sand, floating snow cover, or even floating trees above. Lava lakes may cause trees to burn away.
Generation[]
Lava lakes are rare on the surface but often found in caves, and replace blocks around them with stone.
Lakes that attempt to spawn in midair are instead lowered down to the highest solid terrain below them. Superflat worlds with them enabled have many more lakes if the top is at a lower level than worlds that are tall.
In Java Edition, the air pockets above lakes are generated with cave air instead of normal air. This is true even for lakes that are exposed to the open sky.
Dungeons are able to generate attached to lakes.
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History[]
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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| v1.2.6 | Added water and lava lakes. | ||||
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| 1.18 | Pre-release 1 | Lava lakes now generate only above Y=0. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Added water and lava lakes. | |||
Gallery[]
A lava lake in a badlands biome.
A waterfall naturally generated on top of a lava lake, turning it into obsidian.
A lava lake in plains biome, starting a fire. Note the grass on stone blocks and above the lava itself.
A lava lake found directly on the surface of the world.
2 naturally-occurring lava lakes next to each other. Note the forest fire the lake on the left is not starting.
A lava lake spawned naturally, note the forest fire nearby.
A giant burning in a lava lake.
This cave intersected a lava lake, rather than hitting the lava level like is more commonly seen.
Snow layer generated on top of lava lake.
Lava lake in snowy taiga biome.
A lava lake that is burning grass.
A lava lake in a village.
A lava lake that is intersecting with an amethyst geode.
